Show me your Christmas Menu

[Broodywuz]

This has probably been asked 1000 times but can I see your full Christmas menu's please. Everything you plan to eat Christmas day and for your Turkey dinner (if you're having one)
We've had the idea of having our starters Christmas eve, melon and grapes for the kids, prawn cocktail for DH and I, then soup and nice bread. Full turkey dinner and desert christmas day with no starters but want to check I'm not missing anything off my list

Gingerbread stuffing you say…..mmmm, yes please.

Breakfast is pastries, fruit, yoghurts, coffee, juice and then we start on the champagne. DC will have started on their selection boxes and choc coins too.

Lunch (aim for 1pm) we don’t have a starter so it’s straight into turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower cheese. Also have cranberry sauce and turkey gravy.
Dessert is Christmas pudding, Yule log, and I might go for Sainsbury’s TTD salted caramel profiteroles or a cheesecake.
Normally have white wine or beer with lunch.

In the evening it’s cheese, continental meats and crackers with chutneys. Break into the Christmas cake as well. I usually switch over to red wine then. Also do pizza for the DC (and DP).

Usually round the evening off with a Baileys.

I also get a ham which I cook Christmas Eve morning and we have that in bread rolls with salad for lunch on Christmas Eve. Dinner on Christmas Eve is fish and chips with mince pies. Whatever turkey and ham is left over will either go in a pie or in sandwiches on Boxing Day.

Early morning will be tea and home made ginger biscuits

After stockings, at about 11am we will have bucks fizz and croissants filled with cheese and pesto or ham and cheese (they are from the Tesco food to order range, had them last year and they were lovely)

Lunch will be around 2pm.
Turkey (Quorn roast)
Pigs in blankets (plus a veggie version)
Sausagemeat stuffing balls (plus a veggie version)
Cranberry Sauce
Bread Sauce
Vegetarian Gravy
Roast Potatoes
Potato Croquettes
Brussel Sprouts
Carrots
Cauliflower Cheese
Red Cabbage
Roast Parsnips
Mashed Swede
Yorkshire puddings (do not "go" I know but DS insists on them)

Christmas pudding with clotted cream or brandy butter or custard
Chocolate log

Evening (from about 7pm)

Cheese board, crackers, grapes,
Trifle
Sausage Rolls
Mince Pies
Christmas cake

@maddiemookins16mum it is nigellas gingerbread stuffing, so easy to make and it is asked for every year!

Breakfast: nutella pastry christmas tree, coffee, bucks fizz/orange juice.

Lunch: we have our starters as a light lunch as we're not eating until 4 pm. Choices are prawn cocktail or pate and posh bread.

Christmas dinner:
Turkey, ham, pigs in blankets, stuffing, cauliflower cheese, brocoli, sprouts, red cabbage, peas, carrots, mashed potatoes, roasties, Parsnips, Yorkshire pudding.
We will have picked up a couple of desserts, but we rarely have room for desserts!

Evening: Turkey sandwiches and chocolate

Minestrone soup
Steak pie with roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese, carrots, stuffing
Cheesecake

Breakfast: rice porridge and probably home made strawberry jam

Snacking on Christmas chocolates throughout day

Dinner: (no starter as such, everything goes on the table at once)
Sweet dark bread
Pickled herrings (2 or 3 types)
Salted salmon (hopefully a couple of different flavours)
Smoked salmon
Beetroot salad
Moonblush tomatoes
Potato casserole (kind of baked mashed potato)
Swede casserole (like above but swede instead of potato)
Ham

Pudding: probably gingerbread cheesecake

Party food and birthday cake.

All v traditional

Croissants and orange juice for brekkie.

Nibbles as people arrive: crisps, tempura prawns, blini with cream cheese and smoked salmon, devils on horseback.

Roast Turkey
Pan fried salmon for the pescatarian
Stuffing
Angels on horseback
Bacon
Roasties
Carrots with peas
Parmesan parsnips
Cauliflower cheese
Bread sauce
Gravy

Puddings:
Raspberry and vanilla cheesecake
Chocolate mousse cake

Later evening (if wanted):
Cheese and biscuits
Smoked salmon
Charcuterie

*@Bouledeneige Angels on horseback??

Breakfast: coffee and mince pies/porridge

Dinner: Stuffed tomatoes, turkey, ham
Roast pots, sprouts, cauliflower cheese, carrots, parsnip and turnip
Stuffing
Dessert: Trifle; viennetta, banoffee pie

Snacks: chocolate received as presents, crisps, cheese board

After all family have been dropped back to various hospitals and nursing homes - espresso martini, zoom quiz and a brandy

Only four of us so not a big production;

Breakfast: pastries/ cereal (probably quite late for the teenagers depending what time they emerge)

Dinner (late afternoon): no starters. All veggie, so Quorn family roast, roast potatoes, stuffing balls, sprouts, peas, carrots, broccoli, onion gravy.

Chocs / mince pies / crisps / crackers available to nibble on throughout the day.

Just Googled it apparently oysters wrapped in bacon

I'm going to throw a different veg into the mix that is absent from so many turkey dinners, and which used to be missing from ours as well until I had an epiphany about 5 years ago.

Sweetcorn.

Goes remarkably well with turkey and cranberry sauce, possibly because corn, cranberries and turkey originate in the Americas. It is traditional with US thanksgiving dinners, and how we came to have it the first time.

I honestly urge you to try it. Lots of little kids will like sweetcorn far more than sprouts or parsnips or whatever anyway, and it requires no work other than to open a little tin and chuck in a pan of water for a few minutes. Any left over is a nice addition to turkey soup, curry or turkey and ham pie.

Eggs Benedict for brekkie

No starter, main meal about 2pm

Roast Beef
Shredded Brussels with pancetta and chestnuts
Roast pots
Roast carrots
Roast parsnips
Boiled carrots for dd
3 x stuffings that my DM brings
Pigs in blanket

Breakfast: Almond croissants from M&S freezer and a cuppa

Mid Morning: Smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis with bucks fizz

Dinner: No starter, full roast chicken dinner (nobody is fussed about turkey and it's enough to feed us) with cauliflower cheese, sprout gratin, red cabbage, two types of stuffing, mash and roast poatoes, parsnips, carrots, peas, yorkshire pudding.

Pudding: A big retro trifle

Any other the food will be crisps and treats from stockings etc.

No starters here

Breakfast is fresh fruit platter, croissants and juice.

Dinner:
Turkey
Ham
Mash
Roasties
Buttered carrots
Sprouts with pancetta
Stuffing
Roast parsnips
Gravy

Dessert:
Trifle
Chocolate fudge cake
Banoffi

Turkey and ham sandwiches at about 9pm.

Coffee while opening stockings

Breakfast (after stockings but before tree presents) - Nigella's Christmas muffins with butter, Buck's Fizz and more coffee

Lunch (around 2pm):
Starter - baked Camembert with part baked petit pain and chutneys
Main - turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, maple glazed carrots and parsnips, sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts, spiced red cabbage, gravy
Dessert - Christmas pudding for everyone else and I have a gingerbread and butterscotch bombe thing as I can't stand Christmas pudding

Leftovers for turkey sandwiches, cheese, pate, chocolates etc are then available for anyone that wants them later in the day. I normally manage to fit in a turkey and stuffing filled petit pain with some cheeses and pickles at around 9pm while watching some Christmas TV

0800 - Coffee with scrambled eggs and salmon for those who want it, the adults tend just to have coffee.

Stocking presents and a walk, usually a quick stop at the pub

1230 - seafood platter with champagne

Family presents

1730 - pre dinner cocktails, nibbles

1900 - goose/beef roast all the trimmings followed by pavlova and the good wine

Games

2300 - cheese, bread, biscuits, port or wine

More games

8 - 9am: Almond Croissants/Reindeer Crumpets & strawberries, while opening presents

1am: Cheese & biscuits, salami/cured meat, grapes & melon. Might also have pigs in blankets here, since we are doing beef for dinner this year.

6pm: Roast beef, with rosti, yorkshire pudding, veg, and (for DH, who refuses to accept that not everything goes with beef), more pigs in blankets and skirlie.

Will probably buy a chocolate log, and not eat it, as is traditional.

This is my first year not doing turkey, but last year the kids complained that they didn't like it much, so trying something different.

@Broodywuz

I'm staying with friends, so no menu sorry. But this is a rough guide.

They all have croissants & pain Au Chocolate for breakfast about 9am the teenagers need to be woken up for this these day). I skip breakfast.

They'll nibble through the morning (I don't). We have CD about 2pm. If I have breakfast/nibbles in the morning I won't enjoy my CD!!

it's pretty standard English CH

They have turkey & pigs in blankets (I don't because I'm veggie. Over the years, we tried various vegetarian alternatives (just for me) (variable success) but I feel 'James' has enough to do without worrying about a separate vegetarian option (it was 'only' a prepackaged option, but even so) & I love vegetables, so all good!!

we generally have
roast potatoes
roast parsnips
brussel sprouts
frozen cauliflower (no cheese sauce)

& Yorkshire puddings
gravy (just bisto which is vegetarian)
stuffing (packet cooked in tins)

we usually have the pudding in the late afternoon.

the later in the evening have left overs sandwiches.

Boxing Day.

toast for breakfast/brunch

buffet for tea.
depending on timings -some kind of supper.

it's all very beige/carby, but it makes a change & it's lovely to be fed & watered for a few days. James hates anyone helping too much!! Living alone it's a joy having a cup of tea made for me 😊

You idea of your starter CE sounds good, we always had a carpet picnic CE, because I was frantically wrapping presents! We had our own business & it was frantic in the build up to Christmas 🎄

First thing - Coffee and Quality Street

10ish - Eggs Benedict and Bucks Fizz
More Bucks Fizz
And More and continue throughout the day, possibly ditching the OJ or swapping to wine.

1ish - prawn cocktail (not necessarily sitting at the table)

4ish to maybe 5ish (depending on how many Bucks Fizz have been drunk!)
Roast Venison
Roast Turkey
Pigs in Blankets
Stuffing
Yorkshires
Parsnips
Braised Red Cabbage
Carrots
Brussels and Chestnuts
Redcurrant Jelly
Gravy
Bread Sauce

Christmas pud and another pud (TBD)
Baileys, Cointreau, Tia Maria etc

At some point between dinner and bed - Cheeseboard and mince pies. More wine. More Cointreau.

Thanks everyone.
*@mrsm43s loving all the alcohol suggestions 🤩

Breakfast - tea, chocolate, biscuits.

Dinner - turkey, pork, pigs in blankets, roasties, red cabbage, sprouts, swede, carrots, roasted parsnips, cauliflower cheese and lashings of gravy.

Tea time - profiteroles with cream.

Supper time - turkey sandwiches with pickled onions.

Christmas breakfast (About 9:30am, with presents):
Bucks fizz
KP nuts

Mid-morning refreshments (About 11am, while DP clears up and I call DM):
More bucks fizz
Pick 'n' Mix DP willbuy me

Dinner (About 1:30pm and then left out on the table to graze until about 4pm):
Wine
No starter because its not 1976
Aldi turkey
Iceland frozen beef dripping roasters
Homemade chestnut stuffing
Homemade sage and onion stuffing
Homemade other random stuffing yet to be pound
Carrots and parsnips whipped around the pan with garlic butter
Sprouts with bacon
12 Yorkshire puddings
24 pigs in blankets
Gravy
No pudding, too full

Tea (About 7pm):
Wine
Bubble and squeak of whatever's leftover
Or, if we're not very hungry:
A few Iceland buffet beige buffet bits
Leftover sandwich
Smorgasbord of crisps
KP nuts

Just me and DP, no kids, no guests.